Hi. This is my first post and i am hoping someone can advise me with their expertise.
I got a sg3 about 2 months ago now, love the phone i am currently running it on stock (non root) tmobile uk, its been working flawlessly, but my mates that are on the network 3 get updates through the air but not me.
So i downloaded samsung kies to update and that went fine until i realized that my 64gb sd card no longer works.
The sd card is recognized by my PC (Windows 7) in a card reader so the card should be ok. On my PC, I've tried reformatting the card to both NTFS and exFAT but the phone didn't like either one. With NTFS, the phone says that there is a blank sd card and doesn't give me the option to format it. With exFAT, I get the same message I got initially, where it first says "Preparing SD card" and then "Safe to Remove Card" and the only option available in the Storage settings is "Mount SD Card" and selecting this causes the same messages to be presented again.
Sorry for the essay i am really confused and frustrated any help would be greatly appreciated thanks.
I'am nowhere an expert but you might try a wipe cache followed by a factory reset (no need to reset if it starts working after a reset naturally.
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emk2z said:
I'am nowhere an expert but you might try a wipe cache followed by a factory reset (no need to reset if it starts working after a reset naturally.
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thanks for the reply bud, i have done a factory reset but what do you mean by deleting the cache?
Try formatting the card in fat32
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Try formatting the card in fat32
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How do i do that on a windows 7 PC. thanks for the advise
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Format /FS:FAT32 /QUICK X:
Or download one of those formatting tools that litter the interwebs like a plaugue.
You could also search for FAT32 here on the forum. You'll have hundreds of answers in about 2 seconds.
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Daelyn said:
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Format /FS:FAT32 /QUICK X:
Or download one of those formatting tools that litter the interwebs like a plaugue.
You could also search for FAT32 here on the forum. You'll have hundreds of answers in about 2 seconds.
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Thanks mate I finally sorted it, its just weird that it worked on exfat before.
Sorry for bumping the thread thank you everyone who advised me.
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Hey guys, so my galaxy s2 has been running on RR 3.0.5 with the latest siyah kernel. A problem I've been having is frequent media corruptions, and to solve that, I thought reformatting the internal storage would help. After doing so with cwm touch 6, it doesn't recognize my sdcard when i use my phone. What can I do to fix this?
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Hey guys, so my galaxy s2 has been running on RR 3.0.5 with the latest siyah kernel. A problem I've been having is frequent media corruptions, and to solve that, I thought reformatting the internal storage would help. After doing so with cwm touch 6, it doesn't recognize my sdcard when i use my phone. What can I do to fix this?
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may be u need to mount it from cwm
Try to flash stock firmware and/or use hard reset service code.
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Hey guys, so my galaxy s2 has been running on RR 3.0.5 with the latest siyah kernel. A problem I've been having is frequent media corruptions, and to solve that, I thought reformatting the internal storage would help. After doing so with cwm touch 6, it doesn't recognize my sdcard when i use my phone. What can I do to fix this?
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do factory reset with internal SD wipe in the phone and not in CWM, and you should be fine.
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Jokesy said:
do factory reset with internal SD wipe in the phone and not in CWM, and you should be fine.
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Just did that, and sadly, it didn't help. The phone still doesn't recognize my external sd card.
bluepratham said:
may be u need to mount it from cwm
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Strangely, mounting anything from cwm never seems to work for my phone.
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Strangely, mounting anything from cwm never seems to work for my phone.
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Could be that the SD card is faulty. Have you tried the SD card with another phone? Does your PC detect it?
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may be u need to mount it from cwm
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Could be that the SD card is faulty. Have you tried the SD card with another phone? Does your PC detect it?
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So I tried swapping my SD card for another 32 gb one. However, it isn't the SD card's problem. It's that my phone simply doesn't detect that there IS a SD card mounted in it.
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So I tried swapping my SD card for another 32 gb one. However, it isn't the SD card's problem. It's that my phone simply doesn't detect that there IS a SD card mounted in it.
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I remember there was this setting to mount the external SD card from settings > storage, but don't remember which ROM had that.
If that doesnt work/if that option isnt there, your last option is to check with stock ROM as suggested earlier. Maybe it is a hardware fault.
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I remember there was this setting to mount the external SD card from settings > storage, but don't remember which ROM had that.
If that doesnt work/if that option isnt there, your last option is to check with stock ROM as suggested earlier. Maybe it is a hardware fault.
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In RR there's no option for mounting external SD, only "unmount shared storage". Will try going back to stock 4.0.3 as my last option.
EDIT: Went back to stock 4.0.3, reformatted usb storage and sd card and flashed back RR 3.0.5. So far so good, no problems
Hi all, I've accidentally partitioned the sd-card through recovery and I don't need any ext partition (from romracers recovery there wasn't any undo option). I've tried formatting it through windows or gparted. Windows recognise only the fat partition so that one is the only one it formats; gparted sees both but if I try to remove the ext and format everything as fat32, the phone reject the sdcard not mounting it and giving an error. Any solution please? I'd like to have the original storage space! Thank you all!
Delete all partitions with gparted, then partition/format in the phone.
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Delete all partitions with gparted, then partition/format in the phone.
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Thanks! What do you mean with "format in the phone"? Through recovery or from settings?
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alberto88a said:
Thanks! What do you mean with "format in the phone"? Through recovery or from settings?
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Either one should work.
If one doesn't, try the other.
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Either one should work.
If one doesn't, try the other.
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I'll try and let you know, thanks again
Format again in recovery. Then choose 0 as ext position size. It will be deleted.
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Format again in recovery. Then choose 0 as ext position size. It will be deleted.
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I can't because the minimum size tor ext partition id 128MB I'm on cwm touch
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I think my microsd is half-broken but I managed how to use it until it leaves me forever. I surely have bad sectors because a llf encountered errors. I used a HP format tool to do a quick format and of course the phone told me the sd was damaged so i formatted and got the entire space...hope not to lose future data...any suggestion for pictures instant upload?
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I think my microsd is half-broken but I managed how to use it until it leaves me forever. I surely have bad sectors because a llf encountered errors. I used a HP format tool to do a quick format and of course the phone told me the sd was damaged so i formatted and got the entire space...hope not to lose future data...any suggestion for pictures instant upload?
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I had to do it once...easiest solution i found was put the micro sd card in a nokia s40 phone (i used nokia x2) and chose format memory card
i would sugest you to go with gparted if you have access to linux system but i did not so had to do it this way
Hi guys,
so recently i screwd up my phone and needed a motorola factory cable to fix it. Now that i have it and up and running, i seem to have another problem.
My SD Card is not recognized in the phone. when i put it in my other phone, it works fine with all data there. Connected to my com and it reads it and what not. So i tried formating it again, and same problem.
Tried fastbooting my phone back twice to stock unrooted, and its the same. Tried factory reset, the same..
any idea how can i fix this? Or do i need to get my self a new SD Card T_T
thanks!!
Format the sdcard as fat32 partition from the PC. Use a program that can partition disks/ cards like MiniTool Partition Wizard
Hi! thanks for the reply, tried that, same thing
Hi, just to add..i tried a friends SD card in my phone, and im getting the same error. could it be due to h/w problem?
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my SD card locked up on cm 10.1 and it won't format or do anything
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my SD card locked up on cm 10.1 and it won't format or do anything
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locked up can you be more specific ?
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locked up can you be more specific ?
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For some reason it got stuck on write protected mode I've tried putting it in the adapter and unlocking but it doesn't work I can't delete files or add any more files its a 64 gigabyte Micro SD card I can only read files on my computer and when I put it in my phone it says unsupported files
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For some reason it got stuck on write protected mode I've tried putting it in the adapter and unlocking but it doesn't work I can't delete files or add any more files its a 64 gigabyte Micro SD card I can only read files on my computer and when I put it in my phone it says unsupported files
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have you checked if 64 gb is supported from what i read most phones only support upto 32 gb, also forget the adapter try using it in another phone and see it could be the sd card is corrupt but make sure to check the phone is 64 gb supported sd card
Android 4.0+ supports up to 64gb SD.
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yeah.. maybe 64gb is not supported..
Quite easy.Uninstall the SD CARD and install it again for several times. And it will be ok.
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Android 4.0+ supports up to 64gb SD.
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Thank you sir
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Thank you sir
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No problem. Use the thanks button lol
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Hi. After reading hundreds of pages and dozens of threads, being unable to find the answer, I decided to register and post.
I'm running liquidsmooth 2.9 and had to format my 64GB card to fat32. It now shows up with 26.5GB available. I couldn't format it to 64 due to my USB dongle doesn't support SDXC cards (Hama microsdhc 2in1 reader, did not find any firmware upgrades for it either)
My question is, is there any way to format the card back to the full capacity without having to purchase another card reader? I've already bought 2 and would prefer to format it using USB mass storage through windows, but no software I've tried thus far gives me the option to format it larger than 27gb.
Help would be greatly appreciated!!
You need root for usb mass storage, then download any of the usb mass storage apps from play. Card readers are £2.
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You need root for usb mass storage, then download any of the usb mass storage apps from play. Card readers are £2.
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I am running Liquidsmooth, so I am rooted. I'm currently on a small island where all computer peripherals are outdated and shipping is ridiculously expensive and takes many weeks. So if there is a way to recognize more than 27gb using Mass storage it would be great.
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Question [Q] Formatting a 64GB card using mass storage?
Try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34592799 may help
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Try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34592799 may help
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You seem to have misunderstood the problem
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Hi. After reading hundreds of pages and dozens of threads, being unable to find the answer, I decided to register and post.
I'm running liquidsmooth 2.9 and had to format my 64GB card to fat32. It now shows up with 26.5GB available. I couldn't format it to 64 due to my USB dongle doesn't support SDXC cards (Hama microsdhc 2in1 reader, did not find any firmware upgrades for it either)
My question is, is there any way to format the card back to the full capacity without having to purchase another card reader? I've already bought 2 and would prefer to format it using USB mass storage through windows, but no software I've tried thus far gives me the option to format it larger than 27gb.
Help would be greatly appreciated!!
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Use EasyUMS on the i9300 and then format from your PC? Or format exFAT in a i9300 running a decent Sammy ROM?
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Use EasyUMS on the i9300 and then format from your PC? Or format exFAT in a i9300 running a decent Sammy ROM?
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I am using EasyUMS, it still only shows up as 26.5GB and when it was exfat, it would just say "Insert disk in drive" when I was using USB mass storage. Right now the card is formatted as FAT32 for it to be able to be recognized at all, I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a way to reformat it to get the full capacity in Liquidsmooth through usb. I have tried SD formatter 4.0, Easus partition master, Guiformat as well as a bunch of others. Any ideas?
Thanks for the replies so far!
1) take nandroid to internal memory
2) flash touchwiz rom (aosp doesn't support exfat)
3) format sd to exfat (standard touchwiz format, use storage menu)
4) using easy ums / sg usb mass storage enabler - mount exfat card in windows pc
5) using easeus, format fat32
Should work
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rootSU said:
1) take nandroid to internal memory
2) flash touchwiz rom (aosp doesn't support exfat)
3) format sd to exfat (standard touchwiz format, use storage menu)
4) using easy ums / sg usb mass storage enabler - mount exfat card in windows pc
5) using easeus, format fat32
Should work
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Thanks, I'll try this. I should have done this when I flashed back to stock rom, but for some reason I thought I could do it through usb with Liquidsmooth.
Let me know how you get on...
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Let me know how you get on...
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It worked beautifully. I had already flashed to stock earlier, and I guess from the relief from getting my full storage back (I was a little worried after reading about people having 64gb cards ruined in the phone) , I forgot to format it before reverting to Liquidsmooth.
Wish I didn't waste so much time trying to get the non-SDXC usb dongle to work It's just odd that this tiny stick should differentiate between SDHC/XC.
Thanks for the help. For those wanting to use a 64gb card with a non-touch wiz ROM, remember to format it before you flash and save yourself a lot of trouble.
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It worked beautifully. I had already flashed to stock earlier, and I guess from the relief from getting my full storage back (I was a little worried after reading about people having 64gb cards ruined in the phone) , I forgot to format it before reverting to Liquidsmooth.
Wish I didn't waste so much time trying to get the non-SDXC usb dongle to work It's just odd that this tiny stick should differentiate between SDHC/XC.
Thanks for the help. For those wanting to use a 64gb card with a non-touch wiz ROM, remember to format it before you flash and save yourself a lot of trouble.
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Cool. I thought it would work. Thanks for taking the time to update the thread.
I have micro sd card hc 32 gb class 10 I tried to format it using my phone but the phone keeps unmounting then erase then it doesn't work then i tried to remove files or replace it the files are removed and it ruturn by it self so I removed micro sd card from my phone and tried on windows (regular foromat and diskpart) also same error also i tried on linux it couldn't be foromated on gparted
Sounds like it might be time for a new card...
One last tool that I try with stuff like that is this: http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/
Thanks
Any other solutions
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Thanks
Any other solutions
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I use HPUSBDisk.exe which I cant add as an attachment, but google it, I found it here: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool.shtml
Download it, then right click/run as administrator. Always works for me.